Anne Émond (born 1982) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, currently based in

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Early life and education

Born in 1982, Anne Émond has lived and worked in Montreal since 2001. In 2005, she completed her undergraduate program in

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(UQAM).

Career

Since then, she wrote and directed seven short films including ''L'Ordre des choses'' (2009), ''Naissances'' (2009), ''Sophie Lavoie'' (2009) and ''Plus rien ne vouloir'' (2011). ''L'Ordre des choses'' won the Coop Vidéo Price for Best Director in 2009 at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois. It was also nominated for the

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. ''Naissances'' was chosen as one of the

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's top ten short films of 2009 and was nominated at the

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. Émond's short film ''Sophie Lavoie'' won the best short-film for the Festival du Nouveau Cinema. Her debut feature film, '' Nuit #1'', succeeded in cementing her personal style – a style characterized by long takes, theatrical monologues, and thematics such as youth loneliness and women sexuality. Émond won the

for the year's best feature film by a first-time director at the 2012 Genie Awards."Quebec's Anne Émond wins debut director award"

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, February 22, 2012. Her second feature film, ''

Our Loved Ones ''Our Loved Ones'' (french: Les êtres chers) is a 2015 Canadian drama film, directed by Anne Émond and starring Maxim Gaudette and Karelle Tremblay. The story centres on a family whose patriarch committed suicide in 1978, and explores the contin ...

'' (''Les êtres chers''), premiered to positive reviews at the

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in August 2015,"Locarno: Wide Acquires Sales Rights to ‘Our Loved Ones’"
''

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'', July 27, 2015. and had its Canadian premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The story begins in 1978 in a small village on the Lower St. Lawrence, as the Leblanc family is rocked by the tragic death of Guy. In December, the film was announced as part of TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten screening series of the ten best Canadian feature films of the year. In 2016 Émond received the

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, awarded to an emerging artist by the

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, for ''Our Loved Ones''. The film received seven Quebec Cinema Award nominations at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards, for

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, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Actor ( Maxim Gaudette), Best Art Direction, Best Editing, and Best Hairstyling. Her third film, ''

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'' is based on the life of Canadian novelist Nelly Arcan. In 2017 she was the patron and curator of the Festival Vues dans la tête de... film festival in

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."Dans la tête de la réalisatrice Anne Émond"

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Bas-Saint-Laurent, January 12, 2017.

Filmography

Awards and honors

*2012:

for Best First Film, '' Nuit #1'',

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*23rd Palm Springs International Film Festival, USA, 2012 *10th Pune International Film Festival, Inde, 2012 *35th Göteborg International Film Festival, Suède, 2012 *11th !F Istanbul International Independent Film Festival, Turkie, 2012 *27th Guadalajara International Film Festival, Mexique, 2012 *41st Rotterdam International Film Festival, Pays-Bas, 2012 *15e Cinéma du Québec à Paris, France, 2011 *31e Festival International du film d'Amiens, France, 2011 *28e Festival international du film francophone de Tübingen, Stuttgart, Allemagne, 2011 *45th Hof International Film Festival, Allemagne, 2011 *40e Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montréal, Québec, 2011 *16th Busan International Film Festival, Corée du Sud, 2011 *36th Toronto International Film Festival, Canada, 2011 *40e Festival du nouveau Cinéma à Montréal, Canada, 2011 *2011: "Shaw Media Award, best canadian film, '' Nuit #1'',

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" *Jury Price, Best Film - 25e Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie, Moncton *Pyrénée Best Actress (Catherine De Léan) Festival international du Film de Pau / Cinéma Le Méliès *Nomination Prix génie 2012 de l'Académie Canadienne du cinéma et de la télévision pour la meilleure actrice (Catherine De Léan)

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